How to Eliminate Destructive Testing: Medical Manufacturing Whitepaper Series

Historically, medical products have been manufactured in batches or lots, with a sample of devices subjected to destructive, visual or audit testing to evaluate quality. More recently, however, a paradign shift has begun to take hold in medical device manufacturing, enabled by advances in measurement and data management technologies. The result is a movement away from end-of-line sample testing and towards the adoption of in-process measurement strategies that ensure product quality in real-time, on a part-by-part basis.